The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-12-08
Hunting for Gold in Hook
ing.

We copy the following notice
from thes last issue of the New
Plymouth Raccoon Graphic, and
have no doub. of its reliability,
only in this, that the cave refer
red 10 Is the Ash Cave. and the
exploits described were perform
ed "some time ago" by the own
ers of that Bananza-
Over among the hills in the
neighborhood of dibisonvllIe,
Hooking county, there are "some
rocks" and a number of them are
very high, one it is claimed is
one hundred ana forty feet high.
About half way up there is an
opening 10 an immense cave. An
entrance 10 it can only be made
by letting a man down over the
projecting rocks by ropes. Some
time ago some young men let
one of their number down over
ihe rock by rope until he was
on a level with the mouth of The
cave and then by swinging him
back and forth he was finally
swung into it. He explored it
considerable distance and re-
ported that there were many
traces of its having been inhabit-
ed by human beings. and among
The many traces was a large
round hole cut INTO the floor of
the cave into which another
had been cut TO fit perfectly, and |
and alter many trials to remove
1t he gave it up and came ont.
There have been many stories
afloat regarding the cave. Some
have 1t that there is an immense
amount of gold buried in the hole
in the floor, and that the cave
was formerly the hiding place OF
bold band of robbers. who was
in that section a good many years
ago. and that they buried all
their plunder in the hole. For
some time past "Judge" j. +.
Sain has been engaged in trying
to organize a party TO examine
The cave and secure the treasures
which are buried there, but with
out success.
He has, after vainly trying TO
secure help 10 get into the cave,
about completed plans for gain
ing access 10 1t by drilling holes
in the face of the rock. driving
iron pins into the holes and lay
ing p!anks on the pins In this
way he thinks he can get into it,
and then as he says, "all those
valuable treasures which lie there
will be mine.' If the "Jndge'
does not "slip off his pegs" and
be dashed TO pieces on The rocks
below, he will probably find out
in few days what a-he was.
This reminds us of a silver
hunt among the rocks. An old
residenter named Bond, who liv-
ed under the high cliffs on Queer
Creek. and who is now, being
dead, walking We hope, The gold
en- pavements, represented often
to the Logan n,iIlionalres' that
he knew where rich mines of
silver existed in his neighbour
hood. The secret was this: He
got it from an Injun. and the In
jun got it from Columbus or some
other early adventurer, and he
would not disclose II unless he
got a large price for his patch of
rocks. Floyd and Green, with
Rempel, proud possessors of the
Ash Cave, and o,her stone guar
ries undertook an investigation.
Nearly every man Ill Blooming
vile had specimens OF silver
melted from ore, ana The real eS-
ale was or a boom.
The secret of where he mines
existed would not be disclosed,
jut the land would be sold, The
purchaser taking his chances to
ind the mine and realixe The cer-
ain fortune. Specimens OF diyt
represented as the silver produc-
ng ore were procured and
'rought home. A melting fur
ace was borrowed from Work d.
Baker, and Floyd and Green
pent one entire night in the All
itor's Office trying TO melt the